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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business Review

Operations in a Connected World. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, lean manufacturing was the Big New Idea and it seemed like everyone was learning new tools with Japanese names. He summarized the issue very simply: “We can automate mathematics, we can automate design decisions, but we cannot automate changes in human behavior.”

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How We Revolutionized Our Emergency Department

Harvard Business Review

Rethinking the time-honored processes upon which our daily operations depended would require overcoming the complacency that pervades many large academic medical centers. We enlisted experts in operational effectiveness and service excellence, and both leaders and front line staff were trained on the principles of lean manufacturing.

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Breaking the Death Grip of Legacy Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Robotics is a good example: It’s obvious that it can increase productivity, but it takes some know-how to put robots to work. The Future of Operations. automakers took decades to adopt lean production methods despite the obvious benefits from increased productivity and lower work-in-process inventory. Insight Center.